By: Eddie Edwards

 Born on March 6 th, 1928 in Aracataca, which is a small town in Northern Colombia.  Was raised in his grandparent’s house, which was said to be filled with countless aunts and rumors of ghost.  His grandfather was a colonel and a veteran of the War of a Thousand Days.  _biography.html

 Nicknamed Gabito which means "little Gabriel“, grew up as a quiet and shy boy with his grandparents.  His grandfather died when he was 8 years old and his mother was increasing with her blindness  He later went to Sucre, where his father worked as a pharmacist.  _biography.html

 In 1940, he was awarded a scholarship to a secondary school for gifted students ran by Jesuits.  He attended the Liceo Nacional school in Zipaquirá, about 30 miles away from Bogotá.  The journey took him a week to get from Zipaquirá to Bogotá.  _biography.html

 In 1946, the eighteen year old wished to enroll in the Universidad Nacional in Bogotá not just as a journalist, but also to be a law student.  While with his parents, he was introduced to a 13 year old girl named Mercedes Barcha Pardo, who was a Egyptian descendant.  Before he went off to finish school, he proposed to her, but she held it off until after.  graphy.html

 After not going to school and skipping classes, he began to write fiction books, and then came his first story published in 1946 called “ The Third Resignation”.  Over the next few years, he had written over ten stories for the newspaper in Bogotá.  _biography.html

 Attended Jesuit college and began to read law.  Genéve was the first town he was sent to.  In 1954, he was send to Rome for an assignment on his newspaper for journalism. 

 García Márquez travelled through Geneva, Rome, Poland and Hungary, finally settling in Paris where he found that he was out of a job because the Pinilla government had shut down the presses of El Espectador.  Because of this occurance, he had written a book to be called and later become “In Evil Hour”  _biography.html

 He was awarded the Nobel Prize award for literature in 1982 for his hard work and dedication in writing his books.  He had written a lot of famous books such as the Chronicle of a Death Foretold and Love and Other Demons.  In 1999, he was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer.  _timeline.html